From staff reports

WELCOME — Senior Bryanna Troutman scored a career-high 31 points as Salisbury’s girls basketball team beat West Davidson, 69-56, in a Central Carolina Conference Tournament semifinal played at North Davidson on Wednesday.

Fourth-seeded West Davidson fell to 17-8.

Troutman also had eight rebounds, six blocks, five steals and four assists.

“Bry had one of her better games,” SHS coach Lakai Brice said. “She played extremely hard and refused to let us lose. She was double-teamed, but everything she did tonight she did in the paint. She didn’t take an outside shot.”

Salisbury led by two points at halftime.

It was tied at 56-all with 1:32 remaining, but the Hornets tightened their defense and scored the game’s last 13 points. Troutman had nine of those 13.

Anayia Fulson had 16 points, six assists and five steals for the top-seeded Hornets (22-3), who won their fifth in a row.

Rachel McCullough scored 12 points. Tacorra Robinson had six points and nine rebounds.

Salisbury played without Jaleiah Gibson (ankle).

Haley Lowe made five 3-pointers for West Davidson. Karlie Cook scored 12, while Sarah Rabon had 10.

Salisbury will play in Friday’s 6 p.m. championship game at North Davidson against the winner of Thursday’s Ledford-Lexington game.

SALISBURY SCORING — Troutman 31, Fulson 16, McCullough 12, T. Robinson 6,  Oats 2, Brown 2.

WD    11   11  18   16  — 56

SHS    14   10  24   21 —  69

Carson boys

STATESVILLE – Carson’s boys basketball team may have ended its season on Wednesday with an 82-72 loss to South Iredell in a North Piedmont Conference semifinal played at Statesville.

Free throws were the story. Second-seeded South Iredell shot 46, while third-seeded Carson shot 15. That’s tough to overcome.

“They were attacking, but we were doing a pretty job of attacking the basket too,” Carson coach Brian Perry said. “That was our game plan. Really space it out hit the gaps and drive it.”

At halftime, South Iredell led 31-27.

“Then they shot a ton of free throws in the third quarter, and I got a technical,” Perry said. “We were just in terrible foul trouble all night. There were some calls that were just tough to swallow.”

EJ Clark, AJ Jackson, Cole Perry and Mark Spry fouled out.

“I thought we really battled hard in spite of everything that went wrong,” Coach Perry said.

Carson got huge games from Cole Perry (25 points), Javon Smith (23) and AJ Mauldin (20), but only four Cougars scored.

Cole Hales, finally back at full strength after an ankle injury and bouts with the flue and bronchitis, played well also.

Carson (13-12) has been awarded a forfeit victory over North Iredell for the first-round tournament game that wasn’t played, but the Cougars, like the East Rowan girls, are on the bubble now. They won’t know their fate as far as the playoffs until pairings and seeds are released on Saturday.

South Iredell (16-7) got 18 points each from Austin Edds and Greg Liechty. Liechty made 12 free throws. Ty Everhart added 17.

South Iredell advanced to play Statesville in Friday’s championship game.

CARSON (72) — Perry 25, Smith 23, Mauldin 20, Hales 4, Clark, Spry, Jackson, Zuniga, Harris.

S. IREDELL (82) — Liechty 18, Edds 18, Everhart 17, Dowdy 12, Aeschliman 10, Barnette 7.

Carson   15  12  17   28  —  72

S. Iredell 13  18  24  27   — 82

SPC hoops

CONCORD – A.L. Brown beat Concord in a South Piedmont Conference semifinal on Wednesday at Cox Mill.

The second-seeded Wondres (19-6) took a 68-55 victory against third-seeded Concord.

Kheni Briggs scored 19 to lead A.L. Brown. Amare Haynie and Amari Grier scored 12 each. Elijah Isom had 10.

A.L. Brown will play Cox Mill and Duke recruit Wendell Moore Jr. in Friday’s championship game at Cox Mill.

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A.L. Brown’s third-seeded girls (7-18) ended the season with a 53-29 loss against second-seeded Cox Mill in the SPC semifinals.

Cox Mill plays fourth-seeded Northwest Cabarrus for the tourney championship on Friday at Cox Mill.

CPC hoops

MOCKSVILLE — The second-seeded R.J. Reynolds  boys beat third-seeded East Forsyth in a Central Piedmont Conference semifinal played at Davie County on Wednesday.

The Demons’ 66-59 victory puts them in the championship game against top-seeded host Davie County on Friday.

NPC girls

STATESVILLE — Third-seeded Statesville shut down second-seeded North Iredell, 39-20, on Wednesday in a North Piedmont Conference semifinal played at Statesville.

The Greyhounds (19-6) moved into the title game against Carson at 6 p.m. on Friday and will have home-court advantage.

Carson’s only loss this season was at Statesville.

North boys

DENTON — North Rowan’s top-seeded boys pulled out a 46-45 win against North Stanly in a Yadkin Valley Conference semifinal played at South Davidson on Wednesday.

Dayjuwon Cooke scored 17 for the Cavaliers (23-2), while Brevin Goodlett had 13 and Derrick Page 10.

Bryson Childress led the fourth-seeded Comets (16-10) with 22 points. Carson Lowder scored 13. Childress had a big fourth quarter as the Comets made a comeback.

North Rowan won for the third time in four meetings of the schools. Two of  North Rowan’s wins went to the wire.

North Rowan advanced to Friday’s championship game at South Davidson against No. 2 seed South Stanly, which eliminated Uwharrie Charter on Wednesday.

N. STANLY (45) —  Childress 22, Lowder 13, Clark 5, Hogan 3, Veasley 2.

N. ROWAN (46) — Cooke 17, Goodlett 13, Page 10, Smith 3, Goodes 2, Broaddus 1, Davis.

N. Stanly    3    18   7   17   — 45

N. Rowan  13   12  9   12    — 46

CCC boys

WELCOME — Themus Fulks scored 31 points and led North Davidson’s top-seeded boys (22-4) to an 86-57 win against fifth-seeded Thomasville (12-12) on Wednesday in a Central Carolina Conference semifinal played at North Davidson.

North Davidson will play in the championship game on Friday on its home floor against the winner of Thursday’s Lexington-Salisbury contest.

Jamarien Dalton scored 22 for the Knights.

Tyree Barnes scored 15 for Thomasville, and Javon Cunningham added 12.

SAC men

  JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. – Tusculum  rattled off a 23-5 run late in the second half to collect a 79-65 South Atlantic Conference win over Carson-Newman on Wednesday.

(13-12, 6-11 SAC) Wednesday night in Holt Fieldhouse.

The Pioneers sweep the season series with Carson-Newman for the first time by winning in the same fashion as they did in the first meeting this year, with strong second half play.